On Feb. 18, the OBSERVER published my letter which raised some issues about the Thruway. On Feb. 25, the OBSERVER published a letter by Frank Hoare which was purportedly a response. At least I think it was supposed to be a response because Mr. Hoare, interim executive director of the New York ...

To a certain extent the world of finance is an imaginary construct. By that I mean that it is what we think it is. We can change the way it works by changing the way we think about it. We can change how money is moving within the system. We can make things more fair. Our banking system is ...

By THOMAS REGELSKI Many Americans automatically resist any mention of socialism because they associate it with the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and communism, the Iron Curtain, the 1950s Red Hunt, and totalitarianism. This name chosen at the turn of the 20th century in Russia for ...

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. So you thought that only in a totalitarian state or in a banana republic would prosecutors trump up charges against their political opponents, thereby making a mockery of the rule of law? Well, you might need to think again. ı ı ı After ...

New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is not to be confused with the better-known Alvin of “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” said when he was running for District Attorney that he would “get” Donald Trump. He never explained the reasons for his hatred of Trump, but that hatred is ...

Last weekend, Dear Richard and I were glued to the annual televised Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia – as usual. On the surface, tales of the competition at Augusta National, and my childhood days at summer camp, do not seem to have anything in common. But let me tell you both ...